A public memorial candlelighting event is planned at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Kansas City, Kan., City Hall, 701 N. 7th St., to honor Detective Brad Lancaster.
Lancaster was killed in a shooting on Monday near the Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
A memorial fund for Detective Lancaster’s family has been established at Greater KC Public Safety Credit Union locations and at KCK Police headquarters.
The annual police memorial service originally scheduled for Wednesday, May 11, has been canceled. The annual service is sponsored by the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department and the FOP Lodge No. 4.
Curtis Ayers
The Tonganoxie man who fled police into Kansas City, Mo., on Monday, and fired shots at motorists, injuring a woman, on U.S. 71 in the mid-afternoon has been charged with multiple felony counts, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced today.
Curtis R. Ayers, 28, faces assault 1st degree, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, resisting arrest and three counts of armed criminal action.
Ayers was being sought for the alleged murder of a Kansas City, Kan., detective at the time that the alleged felonies happened in Missouri.
According to court records, Kansas City, Mo., police were dispatched to the area of Bannister Road and Highway 71 on a vehicle that matched the description of a suspect vehicle involved in the shooting of a police officer in Kansas City, Kan.
According to victims and witnesses there, Ayers fled that vehicle on foot and displayed a long gun. He confronted a woman travelling in her vehicle on Highway 71. He pointed a gun at her and told her to get out of her car. He shot two rounds at her vehicle.
When she realized she had been shot, she pulled over on the highway. She identified Ayers as the man who shot her. A second victim stated Ayers fired at his vehicle, striking it one time.
A police officer had begun to follow the suspect vehicle, but he fled until the vehicle collided with a bridge support, according to the documents. Another witness, a police officer, saw smoke coming from the suspect’s weapon and he fired a single shot from his patrol rifle, stopping the suspect. Ayers was quickly taken into custody and given medical attention.
Prosecutors have requested a bond of $250,000 cash.
Kansas City, Kan., resident Joshua Mangum was among nearly 700 students who graduated from Bob Jones University Friday, May 6.
Mangum graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.
During the 89th commencement exercises, 546 students received undergraduate degrees and 58 students received associate degrees. In addition, 61 students received master’s degrees and seven candidates earned doctorates.
Since its founding in 1927, Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., has conferred over 49,000 degrees.
